Page 14 - Celebrity Facts

A member of the band Joy Division was a suspect in the Yorkshire Ripper case!

In 1979, the band Joy Division was touring in some dodgy parts of England. While bands can expect to play in some subpar establishments, their schedule almost got two of the band-members arrested.

Bass player, Peter Hook and drummer Steve Morris were questioned by police as part of their investigation of the unsolved Yorkshire Ripper murder case. It turns out the killer’s movements closely followed the band’s tour. Hook explained that the band had played in some not-so-nice parts of Manchester, Leeds, and Halifax. Police took down both his and Morris’s license plates multiple times.

They were called in for questioning. Understandably nervous, Morris lost his cool and his mother had to be called in to calm him down.

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Ronald Reagan is the only US president to be elected after getting divorced!

Divorce is an icky subject in politics. In fact, if you want to succeed in US politics, you have to have a pretty clean family life (at least in public), as family scandals are tough to overcome with voters.

While other Presidents had widowed and remarried before Reagan, he was the first one to have divorced his first wife. It is thought that his first marriage had been so long before his election, that it didn't cause a problem with voters.

Other presidents, like Roosevelt and Clinton faced divorce after their wives discovered affairs, but stayed married for the sake of their political career. The only ever bachelor president is James Buchanan. It is widely thought that he was gay.

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Ashton Kutcher went to pick up a girl to go to a party. He left when she didn't answer the door. She had been murdered!

In 2001, Ashton Kutcher was going to a Grammys party with his then-girlfriend. When he went to pick her up, nobody answered. He peeked through the window and saw red stains on the carpet. Thinking they were red wine stains, he left for the party by himself.

It was later discovered that the stains were blood stains. His girlfriend and another woman had been murdered. The girlfriend's family accused Kutcher of hindering the investigation on who had done it, because he didn't call the police when he noticed the blood stains.

Seven years later, DNA evidence linked an AC repairman to the two murders there, and another murder in a Chicago suburb. Kutcher, who was upset with the family for accusing him of negligence, had no comment on the development.

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Ian McKellen was brought to tears of frustration while filming The Hobbit!

Gandalf, the mighty wizard, was brought to tears by the technical wizardry necessary to make it seem like he was physically in the same set as dwarves who were around his same height.

It was necessary for Ian McKellen to be in a separate studio in order to film some scenes at the same time. Unlike Lord of the Rings, McKellen was usually the only human-sized actor on screen during these scenes. This meant hours of him acting in sets made of nothing but green screen.

This frustrated McKellen so much that he cried. McKellen said: "And I cried, actually. I cried. Then I said out loud, 'This is not why I became an actor.' Unfortunately the microphone was on and the whole studio heard.'"

Poor Gandalf!

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Harry Potter actors were given red cards if they broke character during a scene!

Breaking character is a big no-no in show business. While it's not as big a deal to break character during a film shoot as it is say, during a live play, it can still cost a lot of money and delays to do so.

Harry Potter actors were given red cards that carried a 5-pound penalty whenever they 'corpsed' (English slang for breaking character) during a take. In the video below, you can see Emma Watson getting a red card while filming a scene at the Lovegood household. (About at the 40 second mark)